January 31, 2015
Latest by-election results: a quiet end to a quiet month
This week’s council by-elections saw no changes. The Tories held all three seats that were up for grabs, two of which were in the same ward of St Albans city council:…
This week’s council by-elections saw no changes. The Tories held all three seats that were up for grabs, two of which were in the same ward of St Albans city council:…
Several months ago I drew up a list of what I called the six species of Liberal Democrat MP. I predicted that at least one species, if not more, would become…
The breathless and rather hysterical coverage of the SNP’s opinion poll ratings continues. A few days ago the party was predicted to win as many as 53 seats at the…
Now that the TV debates look on balance more likely to happen than not, I’ve had a go at putting together a timetable for how the election campaign might unfold….
We’ve hit another significant marker in the countdown to polling day. There are now just 100 days to the election. Look out for a cavalcade of articles commenting on the…
Just 48 hours ago I wrote that Ukip had fallen out of the headlines. Not anymore. Amjad Bashir’s defection to the Conservatives gave Ukip top billing in many newspapers and…
Following on from my look at the 10 highest turnouts in the 2010 general election, here are – you’ve guessed it – the 10 lowest turnouts:
No seats changed hands in the first council by-elections of 2015, but each result had its own interesting story to tell. The most eye-catching contest was for a seat on…
Turnout across the whole of the UK at the 2010 general election was 65.1%. This was up almost four percentage points on 2005, but a fair way below the 78.8%…
The result of the 2015 election will be underpinned by a curious and slightly counter-intuitive concept: the less that changes on polling day, the more that could change the day…